BEIJING – China is poised to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for frozen stores of water in permanently shadowed craters near the…
Myanmar’s military has deployed hundreds of troops to forcibly clear areas marked for a Russia-backed special economic zone in the country’s south, burning villages and sealing off surrounding tracts of…
A rare East-meets-West tea ceremony in a seldom seen tearoom. A country’s culture is often deep and never-ending, always with new facets to explore, but the point where two cultures…
Fujifilm Holdings is expanding production of key materials used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing to capitalize on surging demand.The global expansion of data centers for artificial intelligence has created bottlenecks and…
More than four years ago, Ravil Dzhamally fled his farm in Ukraine’s Kherson region after it was overrun by invading Russian troops. When Moscow’s forces were driven back, he returned…
HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court found two pro-democracy activists who organized annual vigils to mark China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown guilty of “incitement to subversion” on Friday.The closely watched…
The opposition Democratic Party for the People will kick off a two-week leadership race on Saturday, pitting incumbent Yuichiro Tamaki against 30-year-old Lower House lawmaker Mikihiko Hashimoto.Hashimoto, a former Air…
SHIZUOKA – One person died in a fire that broke out at a shipyard in the city of Shizuoka on Friday morning.Around 8:50 a.m., the local fire department received an…
Services using facial recognition technology are expanding in Japan, allowing, for example, touchless or ticketless entry through train station gates and payments at shops without the need to take out…
The United States, Taiwan and Japan need to work more closely together in developing and protecting technology, given the geopolitical challenges the countries face, according to speakers at a recent…